McCain told a crowd in Pennsylvania yesterday that he had called
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to express solidarity with the people of Georgia, saying:
“Today, we are all Georgians.”
Saakashvili said on CNN’s American Morning today,“Yesterday, I heard Sen. McCain say, ‘We are all Georgians now,’Well, very nice, you know,
very cheering for us to hear that, but OK, it’s time to pass from this.
From words to deeds.”
John McCain’s top foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, a former
lobbyist for the government of Georgia, told reporters that
McCain and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili are friends that have
been speaking throughout the conflict “to exchange daily updates about
what’s going on.” and that McCain
and Saakashvili enjoyed a day of water sports in the summer of 2006.
“I can confirm that Sen. McCain and President Saakashvili were jet-skiing on the Black Sea together,” he said.
Asked about Barack Obama’s statements on the Georgia situation,
Scheunemann accused the Democrat of lacking experience on the matter,
saying his record consists only of a handful of paper statements, most
of which related to matters of loose nuclear material. But McCain’s
record on Georgia and Russia, he argued, runs deep. Geez. stepped in it a bit there didn’t he…
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